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Here's Wil Wheaton reading "Communist Party," the opening chapter of "Walkaway," my first novel for adults since 2009's "Makers." Wil is joined on the independently produced audiobook by Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls), Mirron Willis, Gabrielle de Cuir, Lisa Renee Pitts and Justine Eyre. It was directed by Gabrielle de Cuir for Skyboat Media and mastered by John Taylor Williams for Wryneck Studios. You can buy the 15-hour...
Topics: science fiction, audiobooks, happy mutants, wil wheaton, cory Doctorow
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Dec 25, 2015
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It's been a year since I last sat down to podcast, and a lot has happened since then -- and I'm hoping to have an audio setup going soon!
Topics: christmas, cory doctorow
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Jul 28, 2015
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Here's the Q&A portion of the Cory Doctorow in Conversation event I did to benefit the Clarion West Writers' Workshop in Seattle on July 28, 2015. The audio was provided Frank Catalano, who also conducted the interview.
Topics: corydoctorow, writing, iot, copyright, surviellance, drones
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Jun 19, 2015
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Cory Doctorow – science fiction author, journalist and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing – joins New America's Peter Singer and Passcode's Sara Sorcher to talk about society's "peak indifference" to the Surveillance State, what policies could stand in the way of a future Internet utopia, whether young people actually care about their privacy online, and what a future world war might look like in the 2020s. Dan Kaufman, director of DARPA's Information Innovation Office, chats about...
Topic: cybersecurity
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Dec 22, 2014
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It's that time again! School is out, but I'm still working, so the kid came to the office with me, just in time to record a new podcast. This year, Poesy performs a stirring rendition of Jingle Bells, with dirty words!
Topics: Xmas, corydoctorow, daddydaughter
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Oct 26, 2014
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On October 26, Hieroglyph contributors Cory Doctorow and Neal Stephenson and co-editor Ed Finn appeared at Town Hall Seattle , in an event titled “Reigniting Society’s Ambition with Science Fiction.”
Topics: science fiction, optimism, science, stem
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Here's a reading (MP3) of the first part of my story "Petard: A Tale of Just Desserts" from the new MIT Tech Review anthology Twelve Tomorrows , edited by Bruce Sterling. The anthology also features fiction by William Gibson, Lauren Beukes, Chris Brown, Pat Cadigan, Warren Ellis, Joel Garreau, and Paul Graham Raven. The 2013 summer anthology was a huge hit -- Gardner Dozois called it "one of the year’s best SF anthologies to date, perhaps the best."
Topics: science fiction, mit
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Jun 23, 2014
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Jun 23, 2014
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Here's a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage , which examines how Hachette's insistence on DRM for their ebooks has taken away all their negotiating leverage with Amazon, resulting in Amazon pulling Hachette's books from its catalog in the course of a dispute over discounting: Under US law (the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and its global counterparts (such as the EUCD), only the company that put the DRM on a copyrighted work can remove...
Topics: drm, business, publishing, amazon, podcasts, corydoctorow, petard
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Jun 16, 2014
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Here's a reading of a short story I wrote for the July, 2014 issue of Wired UK in the form of a news dispatch from the year 2024 -- specifically, a parliamentary sketch from a raucous Prime Minister's Question Time where a desperate issue of computer security rears its head: Quick: what do all of these have in common: your gran's cochlear implant, the Whatsapp stack, the Zipcar by your flat, the Co-Op's 3D printing kiosk, a Boots dispensary, your Virgin thermostat, a set of Tata artificial...
Topics: wired, lawful interception, adversarial compatibility, anticircumvention, eucd, dmca, floss,...
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In his keynote speech for The Literary Consultancy's 2014 conference, author and renowned digital publishing pioneer Cory Doctorow talks about his creative experiments on and offline, and addresses head-on the thorny question of ‘Intellectual Property in a Digital Age’. The conference is taking place until this Sunday - you can follow today's action at the Guardian Book Blog's liveblog , on Twitter with #TLC14 . Learn more about TLC and the conference at literaryconsultancy.co.uk
Topics: publishing, copyright, drm
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Jun 9, 2014
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Here's a reading of a recent Guardian column, 'Cybersecurity' begins with integrity, not surveillance , in which I suggest that the reason to oppose mass surveillance is independent of whether it "works" or not -- the reason to oppose mass surveillance is that mass surveillance is an inherently immoral act: The Washington Post journalist Barton Gellman and I presented an introductory session at SXSW before Edward Snowden's appearance, and he made a thought-provoking comparison between...
Topics: torture, surveillance, podcast, corydoctorow, snowden, nsa
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Here's a reading (MP3) of a my latest Locus column, How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance , in which I describe the way that I've explained the Snowden affair to my six-year-old: So I explained to my daughter that there was a man who was a spy, who discovered that the spies he worked for were breaking the law and spying on everyone, capturing all their e-mails and texts and video-chats and web-clicks. My daughter has figured out how to use a laptop, phone, or tablet to peck out a...
Topics: snowden, sxsw, surveillance, privacy, parenting, corydoctorow, podcast
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May 19, 2014
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Here's a reading of a my latest Guardian column, Firefox's adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart , a close analysis of the terrible news that Mozilla has opted to add closed source DRM to its flagship Firefox browser: The decision to produce systems that treat internet users as untrusted adversaries to be controlled by their computers was clearly taken out of a sense of desperation and inevitability. It’s clear that Mozilla plans to do everything it can to mitigate the harms from its...
Topics: mozilla, podcast, drm, w3c, copyfight, corydoctorow
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May 12, 2014
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Here's a reading of a my Guardian column, Why it is not possible to regulate robots , which discusses where and how robots can be regulated, and whether there is any sensible ground for "robot law" as distinct from "computer law." One thing that is glaringly absent from both the Heinleinian and Asimovian brain is the idea of software as an immaterial, infinitely reproducible nugget at the core of the system. Here, in the second decade of the 21st century, it seems to me that...
Topics: corydoctorow, podcast, war on general purpose computers
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Apr 28, 2014
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Here's a reading of a my latest Guardian column, Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom , which tries to make sense of the disastrous news that the Federal Communications Commission is contemplating rules to allow ISPs to demand bribes from publishers in exchange for letting you see the webpages you ask for. There's a useful analogy to the phone company that I've written about here before: you pay for your phone service every month. The pizza place on the...
Topics: net neutrality, business, corruption, corydoctorow, podcasts, telcoms
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Here's a reading (MP3) of a my November, 2013 Locus column, Collective Action , in which I propose an Internet-enabled "Magnificent Seven" business model for foiling corruption, especially copyright- and patent-trolling. In this model, victims of extortionists find each other on the Internet and pledge to divert a year's worth of "license fees" to a collective defense fund that will be used to invalidate a patent or prove that a controversial copyright has lapsed. The name...
Topics: collective action, patent trolls, trolls, business, economics, floss, copyfight, podcasts, science...
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Here's a reading of a recent Guardian column, What happens with digital rights management in the real world where I attempt to explain the technological realpolitik of DRM, which has nothing much to do with copyright, and everything to do with Internet security. The entertainment industry calls DRM "security" software, because it makes them secure from their customers. Security is not a matter of abstract absolutes, it requires a context. You can't be "secure," generally --...
Topics: drm, copyfight, podcast, corydocotrow
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Mar 17, 2014
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My latest Guardian column, If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology where I try to convey the insanity of spy agencies that weaken Internet security in order to make it easier for them to spy on people, by comparing this to germ warfare. Last year, when I finished that talk in Seattle, a talk about all the ways that insecure computers put us all at risk, a woman in the audience put up her hand and said, “Well, you’ve scared the hell out of me. Now what do I do?...
Topics: nsa, gchq, security, snowden
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Mar 3, 2014
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Mar 3, 2014
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Here's a reading of my latest Locus column, Cold Equations and Moral Hazard which considers the way that science fiction can manipulate our ideas about the technical necessity for human misery, and how that narrative can be hijacked for self-serving ends. Apparently, editor John W. Campbell sent back three rewrites in which the pilot figured out how to save the girl. He was adamant that the universe must punish the girl. The universe wasn’t punishing the girl, though. Godwin was – and so...
Topics: podcast, sciencefiction, corydoctorow
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Feb 3, 2014
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Feb 3, 2014
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Here's a reading of a recent Guardian column, What does David Cameron's Great Firewall look like? which debunks the UK government's stupid arguments for its national anti-porn firewall: David Cameron's attempt to create a Made-in-Britain version of Iran's "Halal Internet" is the worst of both worlds for parents like me. Kids are prevented from seeing things that they need to access – sites about sexual health, for example – and I still have to monitor my daughter all the time when...
Topics: censorship, uk, politics, porn
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Jan 27, 2014
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Jan 27, 2014
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Here's a reading of my latest Locus column, Cheap Writing Tricks , which discusses the mysterious business of why stories are satisfying, and how to make them so: Plots are funny things. In the real world, stuff is always happening, but it’s not a plot. People live. People die. People are made glorious or miserable. Things eagerly awaited are realized, or hopes are cruelly dashed. Love is gained; love is lost. But all these things are not a plot – they lack the fundamental tidiness and...
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Topics: writing, podcast, corydoctorow, science fiction
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Jan 20, 2014
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Jan 20, 2014
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Here's a reading of my latest Guardian column, "Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful," (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/16/digital-failures-software) about the social and political factors that make all the difference when choosing technologies. Banshee fails gracefully because its authors don't attempt any lock-in. When I find myself diverging from the design philosophy of Banshee to the extent that I want to use a rival system to manage my...
Topics: floss, podcast
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Jan 13, 2014
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Jan 13, 2014
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Here's the second, concluding part of my reading of my 2003 short story "Flowers From Al," written with Charlie Stross for New Voices in Science Fiction (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0756401682/downandoutint-20), a Mike Resnick anthology. It's a pervy, weird story of transhuman romance. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast....
Topics: science fiction, singularity, sex, cstross, corydoctorow, podcast
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Jan 6, 2014
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Jan 6, 2014
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Here's part one of my 2003 short story "Flowers From Al," written with Charlie Stross for "New Voices in Science Fiction" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0756401682/downandoutint-20), a Mike Resnick anthology. It's a pervy, weird story of transhuman romance.
Topics: science fiction, corydoctorow, cstross, singularity, podcast, audio
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Glenn Greenwald's keynote at the 30th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany Thanks to Gerlinde Schneider for supplying the accompanying transcript in HTML and Markdown (txt).
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Topics: greenwald, snowden, ccc, 30C3
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Dec 23, 2013
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Dec 23, 2013
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Our annual daddy-daughter pre-Christmas podcast!
Topics: kawaii, art linklater, christmas
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Dec 16, 2013
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Dec 16, 2013
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Here's part three of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception (http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception), a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother (http://craphound.com/littlebrother) and Homeland (http://craphound.com/homeland). In addition to the free online read, you can buy this as an ebook single (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EMST9SU/downandoutint-20) (DRM-free, of course!) Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a...
Topics: science fiction, cory doctorow, little brother, lawful interception, drones, liquid democracy
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Dec 9, 2013
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Here's part two of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception (http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception), a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother (http://craphound.com/littlebrother) and Homeland (http://craphound.com/homeland). In addition to the free online read, you can (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EMST9SU/downandoutint-20) buy this as an ebook single (DRM-free, of course!).
Topics: science fiction, podcast, cory doctorow
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Dec 2, 2013
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In this week's installment of my podcast, I break my long hiatus with the first part of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, (http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception) a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother (http://craphound.com/littlebrother) and Homeland (http://craphound.com/homeland). In addition to the free online read, you can buy this as an ebook single (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EMST9SU/downandoutint-20) (DRM-free, of course!).
Topics: science fiction, cory doctorow, podcast, little brother, drones, occupy
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Sep 16, 2013
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Sep 16, 2013
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How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch In this week's podcast, I read aloud a recent Guardian column, "How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch," (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/09/nsa-sabotage-dead-mans-switch) which proposes a "dead-man's switch" service that'll tip people off when the NSA serves a secret order demanding that Web operators sabotage their systems. No one's ever tested this approach in court, and I can't say whether a...
Topics: nsa, spooks, snowden, prism, fisa, nsl
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In this week's podcast, I read aloud a recent Guardian column, "Metadata – a wartime drama": http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/05/metadata-wartime-drama-privacy Which imagines a dialog between Alan Turing and Winston Churchill that might have taken place if the UK Home Secretary Theresa May had been Turing's line-manager "All we can tell with this analysis is who is speaking, what equipment they use to speak, whom else they speak to, who the messages are addressed...
Topics: podcasts, metadata, spooks, nsa, turing, bletchleypark, crypto
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Aug 5, 2013
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Aug 5, 2013
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In this week's podcast, I read aloud my latest Locus Magazine column, "Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves": http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/07/cory-doctorow-teaching-computers-shows-us-how-little-we-understand-about-ourselves/ which concerns itself with the ways that we're recklessly formalizing critical elements of human identity such as "names" and "families" for the convenience of corporations and their IT systems and...
Topics: lexicography, podcasts, scienc fiction, true names
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Jul 30, 2013
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Jul 30, 2013
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In honour of the Great Firewall of Cameron -- the UK government's plan to force ISPs to turn on network-level spying and censorship of "adult" material -- I've read aloud "There's no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks" , a column I wrote for the Guardian the last time the UK government floating this idiotic proposal, explaining, comprehensively, why this is such a stupid, stupid idea. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams...
Topics: censorship, uk, politics, corydoctorow, podcast
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Jul 8, 2013
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Here's a read-aloud of my recent Guardian column, "<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jun/14/nsa-prism">The NSA's Prism: why we should care</a>, which sets out the reasons for caring about the recent revelations of bulk, warrantless, suspicionless, indiscriminate surveillance.
Topics: prism, privacy, surveillance, spooks, snowden
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Jun 13, 2013
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Jun 13, 2013
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The Institute for the Future commissioned me to write a story about the "Internet of Things," and I wrote them a piece called By His Things Will You Know Him , about death, networks, and computers. It's part of an anthology called "An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter," which we'll be publishing on Boing Boing in the following weeks. The stories to come are from great authors including Rudy Rucker, Ramez Naam, Bruce Sterling, Madeline...
Topics: sciencefiction, corydoctorow, internetofthings, death, drones
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May 28, 2013
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning'I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part nine, in which the reading concludes. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of...
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning'I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part eight. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning'I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part seven. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning'I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part six. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I'm going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part five. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I'm going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part three. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
Topics: corydoctorow, science fiction, novels, podcasts
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I'm going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part two. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I'm going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part one. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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Here's a reading of my recent Locus column, Ten Years On , in which I reflect on my first decade as a novelist and discuss a possible further volume related to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , my first-ever novel: I never thought I’d write a sequel. The allure of writing books has always been the experience of discovering and exploring a place and people that have been cooked up by my imagination. By the time I’ve squeezed the book out through my fingertips, I’m generally pretty sick...
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Here's part four of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception (http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception), a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother (http://craphound.com/littlebrother) and Homeland (http://craphound.com/homeland). In addition to the free online read, you canbuy this as an ebook single (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EMST9SU/downandoutint-20)(DRM-free, of course!) Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a...
Topics: science fiction, protests, liquid democracy, little brother, cory doctorow, podcasts
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Apr 22, 2012
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As I mentioned in my March Locus column , I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I'm going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here's part four. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of the Living Proof Brew Cast. Hear...
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Here's part two of my podcast of my novella-in-progress called "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life."
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I've just started podcasting a new story, a novella-in-progress called "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your LIfe." It's a long, weird adventure story about the failure of futurism and the difference between "progress" and "change," all about immortal children stalking the bones of ruined cities in lethal mechas. Disney fans will recognize the title as coming from the amazing, weird, awful and wonderful Carousel of Progress ride that...
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Here's a reading from my forthcoming young adult novel, "Little Brother," about San Francisco hacker kids who fight back against the Department of Homeland Security. Tor will publish it in May, 2008. I really went to town on the samples and mixing in this one, hauling out Audacity , the free/open sound-editing program, and grabbing a boatload of samples from the Freesound project , and a little punk guitar from the Anchormen , a great Boston act. This reading is licensed Creative...
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Part four (the conclusion) of Cory Doctorow's reading of Peter Gutmann's "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection." http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system...
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Part three of Cory Doctorow's reading of Peter Gutmann's "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection." http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability,...
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Part two of Cory Doctorow's reading of Peter Gutmann's "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection." http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability,...
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Part one of Cory Doctorow's reading of Peter Gutmann's "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection." http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability,...
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Here's the eleventh and final installment (chapters 27-31) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the...
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Here's the tenth installment (chapters 24-26) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d...
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Here's the ninth installment (chapters 22-23) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d...
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Here's the eigth installment (chapters 19-21) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d...
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Here's the seventh installment (chapters 17-18) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and...
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Here's the sixth installment (chapters 14-16) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d...
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Here's the fifth installment (chapters 12 and 13) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and...
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Here's the fourth installment (chapter 11) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d...
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Here's the second installment (chapters 5-8) of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d...
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Here's the first installment of the podcast of my second novel Eastern Standard Tribe , a novel of political intrigue among high-tech, sleep-deprived management consultants. This is my most ambitious podcasting project to date -- I figure it'll take 4-6 months to complete. I’ve found a half-brick that was being used to hold down the tar paper around an exhaust-chimney. I should’ve used that to hold the door open, but it’s way the hell the other side of the roof, and I’d been really...
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Here's part three of the three-part podcast of my story Power Punctuation , originally published in Starlight 3 in 2001. It's a funny Pygmalion story about a corporate distopia, secure shredding, and conspiracy theories.
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Here's part two of the three-part podcast of my story Power Punctuation , originally published in Starlight 3 in 2001. It's a funny Pygmalion story about a corporate distopia, secure shredding, and conspiracy theories.
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Here's part one of the three-part podcast of my story Power Punctuation , originally published in Starlight 3 in 2001. It's a funny Pygmalion story about a corporate distopia, secure shredding, and conspiracy theories. Wow, you won't believe what happened today. First of all, I was nearly late for work because my new roommate is worried about the electrical and he pulled out all the plugs last night, even my alarm clock! His name is Tony, and I think he is either weird or crazy, or maybe both!...
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Here's part four, the conclusion of my podcast of 0wnz0red , a story about trusted computing, geek culture, and getting root on your body. It was originally published on Salon , a reprinted in my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More . 0wnz0red was a runner up for the Nebula Award in 2003, and has been widely reprinted.
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Here's part three of my podcast of 0wnz0red , a story about trusted computing, geek culture, and getting root on your body. It was originally published on Salon , a reprinted in my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More . 0wnz0red was a runner up for the Nebula Award in 2003, and has been widely reprinted.
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Here's part two of my podcast of 0wnz0red , a story about trusted computing, geek culture, and getting root on your body. It was originally published on Salon , a reprinted in my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More . 0wnz0red was a runner up for the Nebula Award in 2003, and has been widely reprinted.
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Here's part one of my podcast of 0wnz0red , a story about trusted computing, geek culture, and getting root on your body. It was originally published on Salon , a reprinted in my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More . 0wnz0red was a runner up for the Nebula Award in 2003, and has been widely reprinted.
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Truncat is an indirect sequel to my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom . Truncat is a parable about warez groups and Napster, about generation war and the trouble with power-laws. In Truncat, the reputation-based Bitchun Society is stagnating, and the birth rate has dropped off so far that only a million kids are alive on the whole planet. These kids have hacked the consciousness-backup system and illicitly copy and load the backups of their elders, treating these backups as a kind...
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Truncat is an indirect sequel to my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom . Truncat is a parable about warez groups and Napster, about generation war and the trouble with power-laws. In Truncat, the reputation-based Bitchun Society is stagnating, and the birth rate has dropped off so far that only a million kids are alive on the whole planet. These kids have hacked the consciousness-backup system and illicitly copy and load the backups of their elders, treating these backups as a kind...
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Truncat is an indirect sequel to my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom . Truncat is a parable about warez groups and Napster, about generation war and the trouble with power-laws. In Truncat, the reputation-based Bitchun Society is stagnating, and the birth rate has dropped off so far that only a million kids are alive on the whole planet. These kids have hacked the consciousness-backup system and illicitly copy and load the backups of their elders, treating these backups as a kind...
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The fourth and final installment in my reading of my brand-new, unpublished story "I, Row-Boat," a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.
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The third installment in my reading of my brand-new, unpublished story "I, Row-Boat," a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.
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